by joppuyo
5 (17 reviews)
Disable Media Pages
Completely remove "attachment" pages for WordPress media. Improve SEO and prevent conflicts between page and image permalinks.
Tested up to WP 6.8.3 (Current: 6.9)
v4.0.0
Current Version v4.0.0
Updated 5 months ago
Last Update on 04 Aug, 2025
Synced 6 hours ago
Last Synced on
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10K+
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KW Avg Position
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Downloads
85K
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100%
Review 5 out of 5
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Tracked Keywords
Showing 5 of 5| Keyword | Position | Change | Type | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| attachment | 16 | — | Tag | 18 hours ago |
| disable | 61 | — | Tag | 18 hours ago |
| media | 83 | — | Tag | 18 hours ago |
| remove | 90 | — | Tag | 18 hours ago |
| hide | 100 | — | Tag | 18 hours ago |
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- Version
- 4.0.0
- Last Updated
- Aug 04, 2025
- Requires WP
- 6.0+
- Tested Up To
- 6.8.3
- PHP Version
- 8.0 or higher
- Author
- joppuyo
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- Reviews
- 17
- Support Threads
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Disable Media Pages
Go to the Settings ▸ Disable Media Pages ▸ Mangle existing slugs. This will show you a wizard to mangle existing attachment slugs.
First of all, not everyone uses Yoast SEO. More importantly, while Yoast SEO can fix the duplicate content issue, it does not help with issue of media files reserving slugs for pages.
Instead of displaying a 404 HTTP error, some people recommend you to redirect attachment pages to the parent page instead. I think this can be a good short-term solution if the attachment pages have been indexed by Google and you want to preserve SEO ranking for these URLs. There's a plenty of plugins on the plugin directory that let you to do that. In my opinion returning the 404 error is the correct long-term solution and if you are launching a new site, it's best to simply disable these pages so they won't ever end up in Google index.
The unique id is an UUIDv4, without dashes.
Yes, this functionality is available in version 1.1.0. The attachment slug restoration tool allows you to restore the attachment slugs back to ones based on the attachment title.
Yes, check out the GitHub repository.